In the course of a 45-minute discussion, the motion to approve the passage of Article 4 was amended three times. When it finally passed by the required two-thirds vote, the Board of Selectmen, who had carefully crafted its language in a contentious three-hour session two weeks ago, were left with more options than they had requested.
In a well-attended Special Town Meeting for late August, all five warrant articles passed Wednesday night, although one with some modifications.
Harvard General Store owners Adam and Lyn Horowitz have made good progress toward the sale of the store business and its likely continued operation in the center of town, Lyn Horowitz told the Press this week.
In an email this afternoon to the Harvard General Store’s mailing lists, Adam Horowitz announced that he and his wife, Lyn, are seeking a new owner for the business they opened in 2008 in the building on Harvard’s common.
Traditionally, Harvard’s senior veterans who are unable to navigate the sometimes treacherous slopes of the Town Center Cemetery for the Memorial Day tributes have been transported in golf carts. In the past, a local golf club, which is no longer operating, would donate those carts for the parade. This year, however, Harvard’s veterans’ services agent Dennis Lyddy has so far been unable to locate a replacement donor.
At their first meeting following town elections, the Board of Selectmen Tuesday night elected Lucy Wallace as their chairman for the coming year.
The Inn at the corner of Fairbank Street and Old Littleton Road—which provided four affordable rental units for over 20 years—was sold Thursday for $226,000 at a foreclosure auction. Rick Curtin, of Stow Road, was the high bidder at the sale.
By a margin of 43 of the 1,554 votes cast for Board of Selectmen in Tuesday’s town election, Lucy Wallace, of Orchard Hill Road, defeated Rhonda Sprague, of Prospect Hill Road. Wallace will be returning to the board she left in 2010 after serving 12 years.
Harvard’s Annual Town Meeting today approved the $3.97 million plan of the Municipal Building Committee to renovate Town Hall.
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